Teens help Richmond break coastal cleanup volunteer records

More than 800 volunteers, many of them teenagers, broke coastal cleanup records in Shimada Park Saturday by turning out to pick up trash along the park’s shoreline as part of California’s 28th annual Coastal Cleanup event.

The volunteers spent three hours wading through marshland and searching among boulders, filling dozens of buckets and plastic bags with trash in an effort to beautify an otherwise beautiful shoreline that offers sweeping views of San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the Berkeley Hills and Brooks Island.